Palo Alto honored women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer with an Athena Award for “excellence, creativity and initiative in her business or profession; contributes time and energy to improve the quality of life for others in the community; and actively assists women in realizing their full leadership potential” – and she’s a basketball coach.

I admittedly don’t understand all the particulars in this piece of news, but researchers have learned how to make reversible diamonds. It seems to involve pressure and the rearrangement of atoms. The new study of this glassy carbon is being led by Stanford grad student Yu Lin.